Sports-related concussions can cause physical, cognitive and behavioral symptoms. Researchers in the Departments of Hearing and Speech Sciences and Linguistics (Rochelle Newman, Nan Ratner, Kristin Slawson and Andrea Zukowski) are researching how concussion impacts language skills in children and adolescents, how to effectively assess children’s language skills at baseline and following a head injury, and whether carefully-designed language testing might provide a valuable diagnostic measure as well as a measure of recovery from concussion.